My rentals are all over the place and on a yearly basis I make multiple and consistent visits to these places. 

I hadn’t thought about the risk of expanding my portfolio by having multiple properties over leveraged, although that seems to be a growth strategy that many use,  I’m not sure it’s one I’m comfortable with.  

One of the biggest challenges of investing in Rustbelt cities is knowing where to invest and properly understanding the cooresponding pros & cons.Here's copy & paste advice we share to help to address this challenge:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?

I’ve done multiple cash-out refi with DSCR loans.

Cost of construction keeps going up so you need to spread out the cost over multiple units.

One of the great things about having multiple residents per property per year is that you can iterate faster than with an LTR.

Local investor focused realtors will have multiple referrals for you to check out and interview.

You can also partner up as well/have multiple people on the loan for down payment purposes!

The shorter the prepayment term has an impact on increasing the rate.4.

Each value add step in lumber is a doubling impact.